Konstantin Shayne
31 movies · 3 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 29, 1888
- Died
- Nov 15, 1974 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Kharkov, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
- Also known as
- Константин Вениаминович Олькеницкий · Konstantin Veniaminovich Olkenitski
Biography
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Konstantin Shayne (November 29, 1888 – November 15, 1974) was an actor from the Russian Empire who emigrated to the United States.
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Born in Kharkov, Russian Empire, to the family of a Jewish actor Veniamin Olkenitsky-Nikulin, he was the brother of actress Tamara Shayne and Russian writers Lev Nikulin and Yuriy Nikulin.[1] The First World War intervened before he could join the Moscow Arts Theatre, and during the conflict he fought with General Wrangel and the White Armies. Shayne was married two times and he also had children.
As an actor, Konstantin Shayne performed in movies such as None but the Lonely Heart (1944) and The Stranger (1946), starring (and directed by) Orson Welles. He performed in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) which featured Danny Kaye in the lead role. His performance in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) was cut from the final release. In his last film appearance Shayne dominates two minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Vertigo, playing the old bookseller Pop Leibel.
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Konstantin Shayne: movies and TV shows
Acting (34)
- 1964
- 1963
- 1958 Vertigo
as Pop Leibel
- 1956 The Price of Fear
as Bolasny
- 1955
- 1953 Treasure of the Golden Condor
as Father Benoit
- 1952
- 1951 The Unknown Man
as Peter Hulderman
- 1951 I Was a Communist for the FBI
as Gerhardt Eisler
- 1949 The Red Danube
as Professor Serge Bruloff
- 1948 Angel on the Amazon
as Dr. Jungmeyer
- 1948 To the Victor
as Pablo
- 1948 Cry of the City
as Dr. Veroff
- 1948 Night Wind
as Dr. Ulding
- 1947 Christmas Eve
as Gustav Reichman
- 1947 Song of Love
as Reinecke
- 1947 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Peter van Hoorn
- 1946 Dangerous Millions
as Professor Jan Schuyler
- 1946 The Stranger
as Konrad Meinike
- 1945 Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Yanos Van Lankovitz
- 1945 Escape in the Fog
as Schiller
- 1945 The Man in Half Moon Street
as Dr. B.A. Vishanoff
- 1944 The Falcon in Hollywood
as Alec Hoffman
- 1944 None But the Lonely Heart
as Ike Weber
- 1944 Till We Meet Again
as Major Krupp
- 1944 The Seventh Cross
as Fuellgrabe
- 1944 Passage to Marseille
as First Mate (uncredited)
- 1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Karkov
- 1943 Five Graves to Cairo
as Maj. Von Buelow (uncredited)
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Mr. Nikolai Bukharin (uncredited)
- 1939 Charlie McCarthy, Detective
as Headwaiter
- 1939 On Your Toes
as First Assassin
- 1938 King of Alcatraz
as Murok
- 1938 Bulldog Drummond in Africa
as Plane Saboteur